Dream jobs in world of culture can pay well too: A look at salaries & perks of prominent museum leaders

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

The challenges nonprofit arts organizations have been facing, particularly since the pandemic, have made the job of running one increasingly complex. Those difficulties have also drawn more scrutiny to pay and expenditures and many arts executives took pay cuts during the pandemic.
So what do the leaders of some of the most prominent arts institutions in the nation make?

Here's a look at their pay and benefits, as drawn from recent tax filings.

Museum of Modern Art

• Director's compensation: $2 million
• Reported perks included: The director received health club dues and a rent-free luxury apartment in the tower above the museum.
• Institution's total spending: $248 million

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

• Director-CEO's compensation: $1.9 million
• Reported perks included: The director-CEO received a housing allowance.
• Institution's total spending: $98 million

Metropolitan Opera

• General manager's compensation: $1.8 million
• Reported perks included: The general manager received a car and driver, a life insurance policy and some first-class travel if business related.
• Institution's total spending: $315 million

New York Philharmonic

• President-CEO's compensation: $1.6 million
• Institution's total spending: $74 million

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

• Director's compensation: $1.6 million
• Institution's total spending: $62 million

American Museum of Natural History

• President's compensation: $1.6 million
• Reported perks included: The president received free housing in a luxury apartment owned by the museum and the payment of life insurance premiums. (The figures date from the museum's 2021 return because the 2022 filing, which showed its departing president, Ellen Futter, received an $11.9 million package, was anomalous in that the